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[[Category:EEB Seminars]]

Latest revision as of 18:43, 11 November 2008

The EEB Grad Book Club Presents:

Musings on.....

The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

By Stephan Jay Gould

As biologists – and evolutionary biologists at that – we all strive to retain some knowledge of the historical underpinnings of our vast discipline (or multi-disciplines) plus, at the very least, we hope to maintain a cursory understanding of the complex ideas that render evolutionary biology a controversial field. At this informal gathering we will touch upon a number of those contentious topics, and conventional topics for that matter (it’s a given that Gould will have some unorthodox spin on those well-accepted areas), and voila – we will be better EEB graduate students because of it (even if we only improve our vocabulary skills). So bring your copy of Gould and a dictionary and meet us at ….

Meeting Time:

Fridays 5pm @ The Hale

Scheduled Readings:

Date

Location

Readings

Pages

12 September

The Hale

(Chp 9) The Primary Claims of Punctuated Equilibrium: Data and Definitions; The Scientific Debate on Punctuated Equilibrium: Critiques and Responses

pp 765, 784–812

19 September

The Hale

(Chp 8) The Grand Analogy: A Speciational Basis for Macroevolution; Presentation of the Chart for Macroevolutionary Distinctiveness; The Particulars of Macroevolutionary Explanation

pp 714-724

26 September

The Hale

(Chp 8 continued...) Reproductive drive: directional speciation; Species selection, Wright's Rule and the power of interaction with directional speciation

pp 724-735

03 October

The Hale

(Chp 8 continued...) Species-level drifts as more powerful than the analogous phenomena in microevolution; The scaling of external and internal environments; Summary Comments

pp 735-744

10 October

The Hale

Chp 10: Historical Constraints and the Evolution of Development; Constraints As a Positive Concept *We are waiting on an interlibrary loan of Dennett

pp 1025-1037

17 October

The Hale

Dennett has arrived! Copy is in Roberta's mailbox for photocopying

17 pgs

24 October

The Hale

(Chp 10 continued...) Heterochrony and Allometry as the Locus Classicus of the first positive (empirical) meaning: channeled directionality by constraint

pp 1037-1051

31 October

TBA

Halloween Break!

07 November

CANCELLED

14 November

The Hale

(Chapter 10 continued...) The aptive triangle and the second positive meaning: constraint as a theory-bound term for the patterns and directions not built exclusively (or sometimes even at all) by natural selection